Leaving Martinique

~LEAVING MARTINIQUE~

Heading back south to Grenada

It was a rough night.

Washer

OH NO!

Our washer/dryer's timer gave out!

Oh, whoa is me/us, the trials and tribulations of cruising . . .

Carnival 2

THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

Gene was on the wrong side of the street!

CARNIVAL

Sitting in moody Blues' cockpit, we heard loud, pounding steel drums and horn music. I couldn't stand it and said, "Gene, let's go check it out. We can just stay in the dinghy, but let's go look."

"What's the helicopter all about?"

It started deploying EMTs!

And more EMTs.

Our 6th sense told us they needed transportation help. "It must be someone on a boat having a heart attack or something, " Gene ventured. 

Via sign language to the "cops" on the dock, and a bunch of nods and points, Gene approached the dock. I scrambled out, and immediately they threw the med bags in our dinghy, and the  young EMT guy hopped in and Gene took off.

Suddenly an oblivious man and woman decided to jump off the dock and swim back to their boat in what turned out to be the dinghy to the rescue's path. 

The EMT guy saw them first and pointed them out to Gene. 

Gene swerved to avoid them as us on the dock screamed! He slowed, then hit "Little Blues'" 15 HP outboard motor, and zoomed past them following the EMT's direction to the chartered boat at anchor where the person in distress was located. 

I, being left stranded on the dock, went to check out Carnival . . . Gene returned to the dock only to take another person, not EMT, but charter member, back out to the boat. 

Our dinghy ("Little Blues") is really coming to the rescue this cruising season. You just never know. (Way back in 2007 I didn't think we needed a 15 HP outboard, but I am sure we have it now.) We don't putt, we haul, you know what, to and from shore. It saves a lot of time, as if that's so important when out cruisin' . . . 

Depaz

PLANTATIONS DE LA

MONTAGUE PELEE

aka RHUM DEPAZ 

Cutting back through St. Pierre we headed up into the mountains.

Interesting homes, even when boarded up.

Lookin' pretty fancy . . .

Depuis (means "since") 1651.

Rhum making season is February to June.

Free range rhummy chickens run loose on the grounds.

Depaz has the oldest steam-powered engine on Martinique.

Depaz is set at the foot of Mt. Pelee and faces the Caribbean Sea.

It was a great all day tour Greg & Kathy, s/v Indigo, took us on.

And we even got back to Moody Blues  just after the sunset.

Neisson Rhum

NEISSON RHUM

Before we went to Neisson Rhum Distillery we had lunch at the Beach Grill. This was our waiter. He was starting to decorate himself for Carnival. Lunch was great!

I love this painting, all it's color and activity. Notice above it is a shelf displaying some of their rhum. Most of the rhum is 43% or higher. That surprised me too.

Instead of perusing the grounds, I perused the paintings inside the main distillery building. The one directly above shows Mt. Pelee. Notice it can be covered in snow. 

     Kathy, s/v Indigo, and I were in the backseat of the rental car. She had been telling me how lucky we were to see Mt. Pelee's peak. So as we were leaving St. Pierre, she said, see how the clouds can roll in and cover the peak. 

Here comes Carnival

ST. PIERRE

DECORATING FOR CARNIVAL